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Shale Gas: The Indian Perspective
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Puneet Bhardwaj
MBA 2012-14
1.) Overview of shale gas 2.) How shale gas has changed the energy market dynamics 3.) Technology that led to economical extraction of Shale gas 4.) Learning from the US story 5.) India's Shale gas potential 6.) Possible dominant players in the Indian Market 7.) Observed momentum for Shale gas extraction in India 8.) Challenges Ahead
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, MBA Department
The study discusses about the impacts of the economic extraction of shale gas in the past few years & how the improvement of technology for shale gas extraction has led to a revolution in the energy sector. Main section of this study discusses how shale gas exploration has become imperative for India. Also, how India is proceeding towards harnessing the available shale gas resources. Study throws light over the new draft shale gas policy introduced by Directorate General of Hydrocarbons for beginning the exploration of shale gas in India from the year 2013 onwards. The major issues in the exploration & production of shale gas in India are discussed in detail. Along with other issues this study also discusses the environmental implication of shale gas extraction. The study is aimed to discuss the holistic potential of shale gas in India.
Overview of shale gas
Shale is the common name for rock that was once layers of clay or mud. Due to geological circumstances, these layers were compressed into a fine-grained sedimentary rock. The gas which is trapped in this rock formation is called shale gas. In terms of its chemical makeup, shale gas is typically a dry gas primarily composed of methane. In many organic shale reservoirs, the natural gas is stored as free gas in fractures. All rocks have pore space that can hold water or gases. In Shale, the grains fit together so tightly that there is little movement of gas through the rock. In order to release the gas, especially in commercial quantities, the shale must either have natural fractures, or fractures must be created in the rocks to provide suitable permeability. All unconventional deposits have in common that the gas or oil content per rock volume is small compared to conventional fields, that they are dispersed over a large area of tens of thousands of square kilometers and that the permeability is very low. Therefore, special methods are necessary to extract that oil or gas. In addition, due to the low hydrocarbon content of the source rocks, the extraction per well is much smaller than in conventional fields, making their economic production much more challenging. It is not the gas itself that is unconventional, but the extraction methods are. These methods need sophisticated technologies, lots of water and the injection of additives, which may be harmful to the environment. Gas was found in the shale all around the world for a long time, but its extraction was considered economically unviable because of the low permeability of shale. Due to the low permeability, gas would not flow easily and therefore extraction was difficult. A large share of the focus in the past century was on exploring the highly permeable seams of sandstone and limestone.
Things improved in the 1990s.When using a new extraction technology, a tight shale deposit could be cracked open by injecting water into the formation at high pressure. Water is mixed with sand to keep the cracks open and therefore increase the permeability of the formation, enabling the gas to flow. Shale deposits have limited depth but cover a large region. Vertical drilling could only capture a zone of 20-30 meters and therefore only a small amount of gas could be produced per well. Over the past decade the drilling technology has substantially improved and horizontal drilling is possible today. Horizontal drilling enables the well to cover a shale zone for hundreds of meters (both horizontally & vertically), thereby increasing the gas produced per well. This advancement in technology has improved the economics of shale gas, and has changed the US gas market scenario in a large way. Although, such technological developments have changed the energy market in a large way there are unavoidable side effects concerning water use, environmental risks etc. For instance, hydraulic fracturing in tight gas formations typically needs several hundred thousand liters of water per well for each fracturing process mixed with propellants and chemicals while hydraulic fracturing in shale gas formations consumes several million liters of water per well.
How shale gas has changed the energy market dynamics Shale gas is now a proven "game changer", after high-profile acquisitions in US shale gas plays. Two key trends in the last decade have driven this: During the decade 2000-10, the breakeven cost of shale gas production has declined fromUS$8-12/mmbtu to US$2-7/mmbtu, led by technological breakthrough. This has enabled shale gas to compete with conventionally extracted natural gas. In the year 2000, shale gas accounted for less than 2% of the total gas production in the US. By 2010 end, this ratio had increased to ~20%, and is increasing further. [Source: IEA] Shale gas deals in the US worth ~US$70b entered into by global energy majors (ExxonMobil, RIL, BHP, Chevron, Schlumberger) in the last yearand-a-half validate the shale gas story. As per a 2011 article named The Arithmetic of Shale Gas by Forbes magazine consider the following specifics: Consider that back in 2008, before the shale boom really took off, the nominal price of natural gas (that is, the price at the Henry Hub in Louisiana) averaged $7.97 per mcf. In 2011, the price averaged $3.95 per mcf. Multiply that price drop of $4.02 per mcf by the 25.6 trillion cubic feet the country consumed in 2008 and you find that thanks to the shale boom, America is paying $103 billion a year less for natural gas. Had there been no shale gas boom, the United States would instead have been forced to do what the experts expected five years ago: import massive quantities of gas, in the form of LNG from countries like Qatar, Australia, even Russia. Import-dependent nations like Japan and Korea pay upwards of $14 per mcf for LNG more than triple U.S. prices. If the U.S. had to supplement domestic supplies with imports, the extra costs could have easily added $50 billion a year to the national natural gas bill.
Shale gas has driven the rise in gas production in the US over the last five years. Between years 2000-05, shale gas accounted for just 2-4% of the total gas production in the US. By 2010, this ratio had increased to ~20%, and is increasing further.
Technology that led to economical extraction of Shale gas The presence of shale gas has been long known. Commercially viable exploitation used to be a challenge previous to last decade, since extraction was difficult and the gas deposit was spread over a larger area. Technological advancements on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have made it possible to exploit these unconventional gas deposits. Breakeven production costs (that differ from basin to basin) are now reported to be under US$4/mmbtu. Much technological progress is still being made due to which the cost of extraction may decline further. Compared to vertical wells, the horizontal wells can cover 3-4 times more area. Moreover, there has been considerable improvement in gas yield per well by fracturing, leading to more gas flow paths. Once a well has been drilled and cased (completed), explosive charges fired by an electric current perforate holes along selected intervals of the well within the shale formation from which shale gas is produced. Pumps are used to inject fracturing fluids, consisting of water, sand (proppant) and chemicals, under high pressure into the well. The injection pressure generates stresses in the shale that exceed its strength, opening up existing fractures or creating new ones. The fractures extend a few hundred meters into the rock and the newly created fractures are propped open by the sand. Additional fluids are pumped into the well to maintain the pressure in the well so that fracture development can continue and proppant can be carried deeper into the formation (API 2009).
Learning from the US story
US have been the pioneer of developing the technology to economically harness. Mitchell Energy, now part of Devon Energy, developed the hydraulic fracturing technique known as "slickwater fracturing" that made the shale gas extraction economical. Horizontal slickwater fracking was first used in 1998 in the Barnett Shale in Texas. American companies have taken the lead in developing newly accessible resources, prompting government officials, energy analysts and companies to hail domestic shale gas development as a game-changer, the most positive event in the U.S. energy outlook in 50 years, and the Dawn of a New Gas Era. EIA is projecting a 25 percent increase in domestic natural gas production between 2009 and 2035 to 26.3 trillion cubic feet, with shale gas driving this dramatic growth. Shale gass portion of U.S. natural gas production has climbed from less than 2 percent in 2001 to nearly 30 percent today, and EIA projects it will reach 49 percent by 2035. Al-together, energy analysts now estimate there is enough natural gas to supply the country for at least 100 years at current rates of consumption. The transformation is such that companies now are eyeing liquid natural gas import terminals on the Gulf Coast for conversion into export terminals. Energy Information Association (EIA) in its Annual Energy Outlook 2012 early release overview has estimated 482 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of unproved technically recoverable onshore shale gas resources in the lower 48 states. Four of the largest include: 114 trillion cubic feet (25 percent) in the Marcellus Shale, more than a mile beneath portions of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. Range Resources began producing the first gas from the Marcellus shale in 2005. 75 tcf (17 percent) in the Haynesville Shale, more than two miles below the surface of northwestern Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas and eastern Texas. Chesapeake Energy and Encana were among the first to begin drilling in this play in the mid-2000s.
43 tcf (10 percent) in the Barnett Shale, about one and a half miles under north Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Mitchell Energy (now Devon Energy) first paired large-scale horizontal drilling with fracking here in 1995, and the play took off in 2003. 32 tcf (7 percent) in the Fayetteville Shale, which varies in depth from 1,500 feet to 6,500 feet under north central Arkansas. Southwestern Energy pioneered development of this shale in 2003. Liquids-rich shale plays include the Eagle Ford in south Texas and the newly discovered Utica in Pennsylvania and Ohio that hold gas, gas liquids and oil. Oil shale plays include the Bakken in North Dakota and Niobrara in Colorado.
India's Shale gas potential
Around 2009, ONGC initiated shale gas exploration in the country. It identified promising shale sequences in well explored basins like Damodar, Cambay, Krishna-Godavari (KG) and Cauvery. The Assam-Arakan basin is also considered to have promising shale gas deposits. ONGC and OIL have started pilot projects in the Damodar and Assam-Arakan basins, respectively. In January 2011, ONGC struck shale gas at a depth of 1700 meters in its RNSG-1 well in Damodar valley Basin, West Bengal which made India first Asian country to discover shale gas. So far government has identified six basins for exploration Cambay, Assam-Arakan, Gondwana, Krishna-Godavari onshore, Cauvery onshore & Indo-Gangetic. Basins in India:
A recent study (April 2011) by Energy Information Administration (EIA), USA indicates that there is a significant potential for Shale Gas that could play an increasingly important role in global natural gas markets. The Report assessed 48 Shale Gas basins in 32 countries. India is one of the countries covered in this Report along with Canada, Mexico, China, Australia Libya, Brazil etc. This study has assessed risked gas-in-place of 290 TCF with technically recoverable resource of 63 TCF for 4 out of 26 sedimentary basins in India. In view of the advances made by the USA in exploration and recovery of shale oil and gas resources, MoP&NG has entered into and MOU with the United States Geological survey (USGS). In a study conducted by the USGS in 2011-12, technically recoverable resource of 6.1 TCF has been estimated in 3 out of 26 sedimentary basins in India. The study also indicates potential for shale oil in Indian basins. Further, process of identification of potential shale oil/gas resources in 11 other basins has also been initiated.
Possible dominant players in the Indian Market Among the government owned PSUs, ONGC is advantageously placed to tap into the country's emerging shale gas opportunity. Through its promoter, the Government of India, it stands to gain significantly from the close cooperation between the US and India. ONGC also owns large nomination acreage in shale gas rich regions, e.g. Cambay basin and Assam-Arakan basin. It has already started pilot projects in the shale-rich Damodar region, with encouraging initial results. Among private players, RIL has an edge over other domestic players in acquiring shale gas experience and technology. It has acquired part stakes in three US companies focused on shale plays. RIL is the first Indian company to own a shale gas asset abroad. The company has invested around $2.89 billion in three shale gas assets in the US till date which is capable of producing 26.4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) gas. Given the different shale basins in which the JV companies have assets, RIL's experience is likely to be that much richer. RIL also intends to gain experience as operator of their shale gas assets. This will stand it in good stead for bidding Indian shale auctions and in exploiting any acreage that it wins. RIL's US shale gas experience will help it in outbidding competitors in India's impending shale gas auction. Since the technology is new and the operating rules driven by environmental concerns are still evolving, the DGH is likely to place high weightage on the technical capabilities of participants in shale gas operations. In case of bidding for deepwater blocks, where again similar considerations drive the bid evaluation criteria, the weightage on technical capability is 25% of the total points of 100. The bid evaluation criteria for shale gas could be similar to deepwater blocks. If so, RIL will outshine other competitors in terms of its technical expertise.
Other Indian oil companies have also started buying stakes in shale gas acreages abroad, both from the prospective of ensuring energy security & getting the technical expertise for GAIL (India) Ltd has acquired a 20 per cent interest in Carrizo's Eagle Ford Shale acreage position in the US through its wholly owned US subsidiary GAIL Global (USA) Inc for $95 million. Moreover, Oil India Ltd and Indian Oil Corp have jointly bought a 30 percent stake in Houston-based Carrizo Oil & Gas's Niobrara shale asset in Colorado for USD 82.5 million.
Observed momentum for Shale gas extraction in India
In India, the last couple of years have witnessed high-paced activities towards developing the shale gas potential in the country. This increased pace of activities is also timed with decreased expectation of gas production from KG-D6. This is indicative of the belief of the Indian hydrocarbon ecosystem that shale gas could be a viable means of plugging the domestic gas deficit, and plugging it quicker than earlier expectations. This momentum in activities is seen at the government level, as well as among public and private sector companies. Government of India signed an MoU with the US government in November 2010 to obtain technical assistance for characterization and assessment of shale gas resources, policy formulation for shale gas, carrying out of technical studies & training of manpower etc. The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), GoI, is actively preparing for the auction of shale blocks from the year 2013. DGH has recently come up with the draft version of shale gas policy for the same. In its latest annual report DGH has mentioned that Areas like Shale Gas exploration and production will be under prime focus in the immediate future. Six basins viz. Cambay, KG onland, Cauvery Onland, Assam Arakan, Ganga valley and Damodar, have been taken up on priority for mapping shale oil / gas prospective areas. As per the draft policy, the identified blocks in these basins will be advertised for international competitive bidding. Participation of the State will not be mandatory. Requisite promotional exercise would be undertaken to apprise the prospective bidders with the proposed fiscal and contractual arrangement. Offer of blocks would be open to different categories of investors, i.e. public / private sector and domestic / foreigners. Up to 100% participation by foreign companies and participation through unincorporated Joint Ventures would be permitted.
Challenges Ahead
Although, there are huge advantages of harnessing shale gas but there are many key challenges for proper exploration & production of shale gas which need to be addressed upfront for smooth implementation of the shale gas policy in India. An unavoidable impact of shale gas and tight oil extraction is a high land occupation due to drilling pads, parking and maneuvering areas for trucks, equipment, gas processing and transporting facilities as well as access roads. Major possible impacts are air emissions of pollutants, groundwater contamination due to uncontrolled gas or fluid flows due to blowouts or spills, leaking fracturing fluid, and uncontrolled waste water discharge. Fracturing fluids contain hazardous substances, and flow-back in addition contains heavy metals and radioactive materials from the deposit. Experience from the USA shows that many accidents happen, which can be harmful to the environment and to human health. Moreover, limited availability of water for hydraulic fracturing could become a significant constraint on the development of shale gas in some water-stressed areas. Shale gas extraction require excessive water supply which can also reduce the availability of water for use by local communities and in other productive activities, such as agriculture. The treatment and disposal of waste water are critical issues for shale gas production. After being injected into the well, part of the fracturing fluid (which is often almost entirely water) is returned as flow-back in the days and weeks that follow. Flow-back returns (like waste water from drilling) requires secure storage on site, preferably fully contained in stable, weather-proof storage facilities as they do pose a potential threat to the local environment unless handled properly.
Shale gas production techniques and possible environmental hazards are shown in the following diagram:
Technological advancements on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydro fraccing) have made it possible to exploit shale gas deposits. Much technological progress is still being made due to which the cost of extraction is likely to decline further. Thus, it can be said that shale gas has a greater role to play in the global energy market in the coming years. India is among one of the countries which has ample amount of recoverable shale gas & with government keen on developing the framework for extraction & production of shale gas, the shale gas story of US can be repeated in India too with a good prospect of turning India from net importer of natural gas to net exporter. Also, Indias oil & gas import bill, an astronomically Rs. 4.65 lakh crores last year, will reduce considerably. But, on the other side of the big picture, lies big issues related to high land occupation, air emissions of pollutants, depletion in water-table because of excessive usage of water in fracturing process, groundwater contamination due to blowouts or spills etc need to be addressed while devising a proper framework for extraction of shale gas.
References 1.) Shale gas extraction in the UK: a review of hydraulic fracturing. The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Issued: June 2012 DES2597. 2.) World Energy Outlook: Special report International energy agency. 2012. on unconventional gas.
3.) Shale gas in India: Closer to reality. Motilal Oswal Research. 29 March 2011 4.) Draft Shale gas policy. Directorate General of Hydrocarbon. July 2012 5.) Shale gas: Global perspective. KPMG. 2011 6.) Impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction on the environment and on human health. Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy, European Union. June 2011 7.) Shale gas outlook: A US perspective. KPMG. 2012 8.) http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article2496191.ece 9.) http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/oil-india-ioc-buy-stakeusshale-assets-for-36825m_765031.html 10.) http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/06/22/thearithmetic-of-shale-gas/ 11.) http://www.dghindia.org/NonConventionalEnergy.aspx?tab=2
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by Greg Noe — Wed, 03/14/2012 - 5:00am
There doesn't seem to be a major release from one of the big name publishers that hasn't received negative attention for one reason or another lately. Whether it's nasty DRM, a lack of dedicated servers for multiplayer, or it simply doesn't meet expectations in previews, a minority set of gamers love to complain vocally. The gaming press gives these guys attention and highlights the low-rated user reviews on Metacritic as evidence of either ignorant gamers or evil publishers, but the same development team is back in the office the next day making a sequel.
Mass Effect 3 is the latest target, and while a variety of complaints have bubbled to the top ranging from complaints about the ending to homophobic insinuations that Shepard could never, ever be gay, the main factor seems to be about the day one downloadable content, From Ashes. Similar to Mass Effect 2's launch day Zaeed: The Price of Revenge, From Ashes features a new level and a new playable character.
I haven't beaten Mass Effect 3 yet, but I have played this DLC and spent some time with the new character. Here's my review on From Ashes, the first of undoubtedly many DLCs to come for Mass Effect 3.
First Hour Review
by Greg Noe — Mon, 03/05/2012 - 11:00pm
Sequels to your favorite games of all time don't come out very often, and the results are often mixed. Chrono Cross had me giddy for a while until eventual disappointment set in, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island was incredible and I love it more than the original, and Mass Effect 2 was a supreme success, a better game in almost every way than the first, but I still love Mass Effect more.
So here we are with Mass Effect 3. The first hour to the first two games were both great, each setting the tone and pace for the rest of their respective title. I'm excited to see where Mass Effect 3 will take us, was the demo from a few weeks back the opening, or does Bioware have something else in store? I don't think I've been this excited to play a game since, well, Mass Effect 2 came out. Heck, the last time I paid full price for a game was Mass Effect 2.
So let's just get right to it. I'm excited, honored, and extremely biased to present the first hour of Mass Effect 3.
Mass Effect 3 demo
by Greg Noe — Sat, 02/11/2012 - 9:00pm
For reasons actually completely unrelated to me running this video game website, I was given early access to the Mass Effect 3 demo. This doesn't make me particularly special or anything, but since I am playing it a wee bit earlier than most other interested gamers, I thought I'd take a minute to write about it.
This is the first Mass Effect title with a demo available before the game's initial release, but if you've been following its hype in any reasonable manner, you'll quickly find out that the demo just gives normal gamers the opportunity to try out the levels that were playable last E3. They're probably in their near-final polished state now, however.
I've never taken the time to actually research my demo history carefully to see if this is true, but I have this general feeling that I've never played a game demo that actually made me want to go out and buy the real game. Something about just playing only a part of the package bugs me, I guess. This has me slightly nervous about playing Mass Effect 3's demo as it's my current favorite series and I have very high hopes for this last entry in the trilogy. Well, here goes everything.
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by Greg Noe — Sat, 12/31/2011 - 5:00am
Announcing the 2011 Game of the Year Awards from First Hour!
These aren't your normal awards, we cover everything from older game of the year to worst first hour. We also don't sum up votes on categories or anything either, we simply present each writer's thoughts on their pick, so if you don't like something, you know exactly who to blame! Of course, we do all this just for fun (spare time!) and buy all of our own games (real money!), so most of us don't even touch some of the big releases of the year. Woe to the unpaid game critic!
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In Mass Effect 2's opening minutes, Commander Shepard's ship is destroyed and our hero is tossed lifeless to a desolate planet. After a quick title sequence, Shepard is revived in a state-of-the-art facility and the game kicks off properly. The period of Shepard apparently burning up in the planet's upper atmosphere and then looking as good as new is quickly brushed upon but there are bigger aliens to fry in the galaxy.
For the curious fan trying to put the pieces together, or just experience everything BioWare has to offer, a series of comics were released by Dark Horse. Mass Effect: Redemption details Liara's rescue of Shepard's body from the Collectors and the Shadow Broker, and its delivery to the Illusive Man at Cerberus.
Published as a set of four and kicking off in early January 2010 before Mass Effect 2 was released, Redemption also serves as what is, at this time, a series of six comic books covering a wide range of characters and locations in the universe. I plan to cover them all before the release of Mass Effect 3, but let's start with the first one.
Mass Effect 2 - Arrival
I just finished up my playthrough of the hardest difficulty in Mass Effect 2, and in the process finished unlocking all the game's achievements along with playing all the downloadable content released after my first playthrough. I missed quite a bit of content, including Overlord and Lair of the Shadow Broker, but that's all been played and reviewed now.
Which leaves me with just Arrival, the most recent and supposedly last piece of DLC released in February 2011. It is meant to bridge the gap between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, and from the E3 preview of the third game, it will kick off with Commander Shepard feeling the repercussions of his decisions in the DLC. An interesting decision to place a semi-major plot element in a paid piece of content, but that's business.
After a bum-rush of Mass Effect 2 related reviews over the past few months, this is probably my second to last piece on the game. I'm planning a Daddy Issues feature and that will be it (unless BioWare sneaks another piece of downloadable content on us, which seems unlikely). But don't worry, I still need to write about all the different comics in the Mass Effect universe, so there is still more to come.
Mass Effect: Arrival costs 560 MS points or $7.
You may be surprised to find out the Mass Effect novels are not about Commander Shepard, or any of his squadmates, or feature any of the major events that take place during the games. BioWare and author Drew Karpyshyn have been very careful in not allowing any kind of canon Shepard to be declared. An individual's Mass Effect experience is heavily influenced by the decisions they make, and the writers don't want any outside influence to indicate someone is doing it right or wrong.
But the novels have successfully created their own small cast of characters and locations. Mass Effect: Revelation served as a prequel to the series, and while it introduced us to Captain Anderson and Saren, Kahlee Sanders quickly became the character to identify with. Ascension follows Sanders through her run in with Cerberus and training of human biotics, but also teases at some of the locations we would see in Mass Effect 2.
Now with Mass Effect: Retribution, we continue to follow Kahlee, but seemingly brush up against the world of the games a little closer. In most ways, Retribution doesn't feel as much like a prequel to Mass Effect 3 as Ascension did to 2, but some groundwork is laid.
Here is my review of Mass Effect: Retribution, written by Drew Karpyshyn and released in July 2010.
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PM Modi asserts, partnership between India and EU significant for peace and stability in world
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said, India and the European Union are natural partners and their partnership is significant for peace and stability in the world.
The Prime Minister was addressing the 15th meeting of the India-European Union Summit being held in virtual mode this afternoon.
Mr Modi said, an action-oriented agenda should be made which can be implemented within the stipulated time frame.
The Prime Minister said, his government is committed to strengthen and deepen the relations between India and the European Union and highlighted the need to adopt a long-term strategic perspective for this.
The Prime Minister pointed out that both the health and prosperity of citizens are facing challenges today and there are different types of pressures on rules-based international order.
He said that in such a situation, India-EU partnership can play an important role in economic reconstruction, and in building a human-centric and humanity-centric globalisation.
The Prime Minister said that apart from the current challenges, long-term challenges like climate change are also a priority for both India and the EU.
He invited investments and technology from Europe in India's efforts to increase the use of renewable energy in the country. He hoped that India - EU relations will gain momentum through this virtual summit.
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451 F2d 979 United States of America v. Robert Denoia et al.
Robert DeNOIA et al., Appellants.
Nos. 3, 54, 55, Dockets 71-1032, 71-1145, 71-1175.
United States Court of Appeals,
Second Circuit.
Argued Sept. 24, 1971.
Decided Nov. 1, 1971.
I. Howard Kay, New York City, for appellant DeNoia.
Bob A. Kramer, New York City (Bobick, Deutsch & Schlesser, New York, City, on the brief), for appellant Jacovino.
Jerald Rosenthal, New York City (Fruchtman & Lindenauer, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Scorzello.
Arthur J. Viviani, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., Charles B. Updike and Peter F. Rient, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, on the brief), for appellee.
Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, MULLIGAN and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.
The only issue on appeal in this routine narcotics case which warrants brief mention is the sufficiency of the evidence connecting appellants to the conspiracy.
Appellants DeNoia, Jacovino and Scorzello appeal from judgments of conviction entered upon a jury verdict after a three day trial in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Lloyd F. MacMahon, District Judge, finding them guilty on one count of concealing, transporting and selling heroin, in violation of the federal narcotics laws, 21 U.S.C. Secs. 173 and 174 (1964),1 and on one count of conspiring to violate the same statutes. DeNoia also appeals from his conviction for possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(c) (Supp. IV, 1969). DeNoia, Jacovino and Scorzello were sentenced, respectively, to 8 year, 12 year and 10 year concurrent terms. Finding no prejudicial error, we affirm.
An extensive undercover investigation by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics culminated in a five-count indictment2 returned on May 9, 1969 against appellants and two others, Dominick Amoroso and Pasquale Pavia.3 Upon the uncontroverted testimony of the agents, the jury could have found as follows. On January 10, 1969, Pavia and Jacovino, who described the narcotics as "French goods", sold 86 grams of heroin to Agent Ellin in the men's room of a Manhattan bar. Several months later, on April 8, 1969, Scorzello assured Ellin that he and Pavia could supply any quantity of heroin and that the merchandise would be from France, "right off the boat." On April 14, Pavia agreed to sell Ellin a kilogram of heroin for $28,000. Pavia arranged to meet Ellin and another agent, Devine, on April 17 at the same Manhattan bar to consummate the sale. At the designated time and place, DeNoia, while carrying a firearm, delivered a bag containing heroin to Pavia. After inspecting the contents of the bag, the agents arrested Pavia and DeNoia.
Appellants contend that, while there may have been sufficient proof that each of them conspired with Pavia to violate the federal narcotics laws, there is insufficient evidence from which a jury could conclude that they were aware that the scope of the conspiracy was larger than their participation as respective individuals. This argument is based primarily upon the implication of each appellant in a single transaction involving only Pavia or, in the case of DeNoia, only Pavia and Amoroso.4
For a single act to be sufficient to draw an actor within the ambit of a conspiracy to violate the federal narcotics laws, there must be independent evidence tending to prove that the defendant in question had some knowledge of the broader conspiracy, or the single act itself must be one from which such knowledge may be inferred. United States v. Agueci, 310 F.2d 817, 836 (2 Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 372 U.S. 959 (1963); United States v. Aviles, 274 F.2d 179, 189 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 362 U.S. 974 (1960). The evidence relating to the two sales, and Jacovino's and Scorzello's proven knowledge of the common origin of the drugs in the two transactions, when combined with the size of the transactions, is sufficient for an inference that each knew he was involved in a criminal enterprise of substantial scope, which was likely to involve other persons. Therefore, even though each was only implicated in one transaction, a jury could properly infer participation in an over-all conspiracy. United States v. Bentvena, 319 F.2d 916, 928 (2 Cir. 1963), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 940 (1964); United States v. Agueci, supra, 310 F.2d at 836.
As to DeNoia, however, we find no independent evidence linking him to the conspiracy. DeNoia's delivery of the heroin is not the kind of single transaction which itself supports an inference of knowledge of a broader conspiracy. United States v. Aviles, supra, 274 F.2d at 190; United States v. Stromberg, 268 F.2d 256, 267 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 863 (1959); United States v. Reina, 242 F.2d 302, 306 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 354 U.S. 913 (1957). But see United States v. Agueci, supra, 310 F.2d at 836.
Nevertheless, assuming the insufficiency of the evidence to support DeNoia's conviction on the conspiracy count, we hold that he was not prejudiced by the submission of that count to the jury. There was ample evidence to support his convictions on the two substantive counts. Since DeNoia received concurrent sentences, valid convictions on the two substantive counts provide sufficient basis to affirm the judgment from which DeNoia appeals. United States v. Tropiano, 418 F.2d 1069, 1083 (2 Cir. 1969), cert. denied, 397 U.S. 1021 (1970); United States v. Marino, 396 F.2d 780, 781 (2 Cir. 1968).
We have considered appellants' other claims of error and find them to be without merit.
These sections were repealed, effective May 1, 1971, by Sec. 1101(a) (2) of the Drug Control Act of 1970, Pub.L. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1292, and were superseded by Secs. 401 and 404 of that Act. The Act also provides that prosecutions for any violation of law occurring prior to the effective date of repeal will not be affected by reason thereof. Pub.L. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1292, Sec. 1103
Counts 1-4 charged violations of 21 U.S.C. Secs. 173 and 174 (1964) as follows: Count 1 charged all defendants with a conspiracy to conceal, transport and sell heroin; Count 2 charged Jacovino and Pavia with the sale of heroin; Count 3 charged Pavia with the sale of heroin; and Count 4 charged Amoroso, DeNoia, Pavia and Scorzello with concealing and transporting heroin. Count 5 charged DeNoia and Pavia with possession of a firearm during the commission of the offenses charged in Counts 1 and 4, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 924 (c) (Supp. IV, 1969)
Trial of the cases against Amoroso and Pavia were severed. Amoroso pleaded guilty to Count 4 and was sentenced to the mandatory minimum term of five years. Pavia, who was a fugitive at the time of trial, subsequently pleaded guilty to Counts 1, 4 and 5 and was sentenced to ten year concurrent terms
On April 17, 1969, Amoroso drove DeNoia to the Manhattan bar where DeNoia delivered the heroin to Pavia. Amoroso waited in the car while DeNoia entered the bar


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By Van Williams
Anchorage, Alaska (AP) April 2010
The year was 1971. Soft contacts were introduced, Federal Express and Greenpeace were just getting started and gas cost .40 cents a gallon.
It was also the year the Native Youth games were born.
Native games had long been a custom in rural Alaska before the NYO competition was founded by a group of Anchorage teachers organized by Sarah Hanuske, a coordinator for the state's boarding home program.
The idea of creating a statewide competition was to give the relocated students living with strangers in Anchorage a taste of home because prior to NYO they had no real connection with where they came from during the school year.
While they were hundreds of miles from their villages, life in the big city made them feel millions of miles away.
That's why starting something like NYO was so important, said David Gransbury, a former state liaison officer who found students boarding homes.
"We knew it was important to the kids," said Gransbury, who later opened and still owns the Ulu Factory. "We knew right away that it was worth while because you could see the enthusiasm level."
Gransbury, 64, said the idea originally came from a group of relocated ninth graders who were enrolled in the boarding home program. Eventually the idea was put into motion in the spring of 1971 by a group that included Hanuske, Gransbury and Benny Snowball.
At that time, before the landmark Molly Hootch case settled in 1976, many rural villages didn't have high schools and so the state transferred hundreds of students to Anchorage, where they stayed with strangers and attended a separate boarding school.
"For a million reasons it didn't work," said former boarding school teacher Esther Cox.
Most of the students dropped out of the program. Some claimed to have been abused, treated like servants and isolated during meals. And while other students reported enjoyable experiences, the program ultimately failed.
"They were living with strange families. They were living in a culture that was totally different," said Cox, a teacher for 33 years. "Of course, this was 1971, and there wasn't the movement from rural Alaska to urban Alaska like there is now."
In 1976, the state of Alaska reached an out-of-court settlement in the Molly Hootch case, which was named after the 15-year-old girl who had to leave Emmonak to attend high school. The state agreed to build and operate high schools in all Alaska communities that have an elementary school and at least 10 students.
"Molly Hootch changed the face of education in Alaska," Cox said.
And NYO changed the way Native Games were viewed, taking a rural activity and making it mainstream competition where bragging rights between villages could finally be settled.
Hanuske, a coordinator for the state's boarding home program, spearheaded the team effort in getting NYO off the ground, Gransbury said.
"She was my boss," he said. "She was supportive and she helped out a lot. She gave us the freedom to pursue it."
It took a lot of effort behind-the-scenes from people like Gransbury and Snowball to make it a possibility. They came up with the name, found an empty gymnasium and wrote up the rules.
"It really got going fast," Gransbury said. "We had a lot of leeway to issue travel authorization for coaches and teams to get down here because we wanted other kids from around the state to participate in it."
The competition is open to all Alaska students in grades 7 to 12 regardless of ethnic origin. Just like with other school sports, participants must be in good standing with their academics. Events include the One Foot High Kick, Eskimo Stick Pull, Seal Hop, One Hand Reach and more.
The inaugural NYO featured a dozen teams from places like Sitka, Nome and Kotzebue, in addition to an Anchorage team from the boarding schools. The first competition took one afternoon and featured 100 students.
Now it stretches three days and includes more than 600 kids.
Current NYO coordinator Brian Walker, of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, credits the growth to increased awareness of the significance behind the events, which are based on time-honored hunting and fishing techniques.
"Keeping our tradition alive is very important, especially now that people are moving from smaller villages to bigger cities," Walker said. "They are leaving their traditions and their cultures somewhat behind. This is one way they can stay connected with their culture and it gives the kids a sense of belonging, a sense of community."
Walker knows this from personal experience.
He moved from Anvik to Anchorage at age 12. It was a difficult transition. He felt like he lost connection with his heritage after moving and called himself a "closet Native."
When he was introduced to Native games in 1985, it changed his life.
"It gave me strength to know I could do anything," Walker said.
And now he's applying those methods to his life today. The widowed father with three teenagers (two boys and a girl) is teaching the lessons he learned as a Native champion to his 15-year-old high school sophomore son, who is thinking of pursuing an engineering degree in college.
"He came home with this whole list of all these different classes that he would have to pass before the end of his junior year, and he was just struggling with the idea, saying, 'No, I can't do this,' " Walker said.
"So I started talking to him about when he was competing at NYO and how the knowledge he gained ... whether he could beat the other person, whether he can get an A in Calculus, it was just a matter of doing it.
"It's like Norman Vaughan said, 'Dream big and dare to fail.' And if I haven't done it, I have given it my best."


Naomi Clark presents Mindfulness: its relevance and recent developments in the modern university at Learning & Teaching conference.
With record numbers of requests for counselling, the student wellbeing epidemic has never been so great, with the vast majority reporting suffering from stress. Besides having a detrimental impact on student wellbeing and mental health, prolonged stress can also impair cognitive functions including working-memory and recall, and consequentially academic achievement. Professional 1:1 sessions can never address this.
Mindfulness meditation as a preventive (resilience building) approach has recently been developed by universities such as Cambridge to address this (Galante et al., 2018) and shown to be effective for students enrolled in it. These adopt traditional face-to-face group mindfulness-based training format, but to scale this up at Glasgow we would need to offer this to about 8,000 students per year, while one instructor working flat out at 16 sessions of 30 students a week could only address about 500 students per every 8-week course. Dozens of instructors and rooms might be needed.
Numerous informal reports show however that many students learn not from instructors but from apps on their mobile phones (e.g. Calm, Buddhify), and furthermore return to meditation to 'self-medicate' when their stress rises. This appears a more workable approach, about which very little has been published. We will report on a pilot scheme to promote this self-taught approach in Computing Science, and on a survey to show how widespread this approach already is. We are also piloting the use of EEG headbands to assist in self-administered mindfulness practice.
Reducing stress by regaining control of one's attention is however only one 'function' that mindfulness meditation addresses, and there are trials of how other types of meditation within popular apps may improve learning. One of these is the impact of integrating brief pre-lecture mindfulness meditations into teaching (Miller et al., 2018).


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Advice: tips for your electrical apprenticeship.
June 21, 2016 Mario DeAgazio
According Michael Cadieux, one of the toughest obstacles facing electricians today is simply finding a way to enter the trade.
And he would know.
Although he is now a Master Electrician, he too struggled to find his first big break while looking for an electrical apprenticeship.
The importance of a network to land an electrical apprenticeship.
"I think that finding an apprenticeship can be really tough," he says. "I personally searched for one for over a year before I was able to find an 'in' through my brother's father-in-law, who put in a good word for me with an electrical company he knew."
Michael's experience highlights one of the biggest lessons he's learned over the course of his career - that the construction industry is a community and just like any other industry, building your network can have a tremendous impact on getting an electrical apprenticeship.
"My advice for people trying to enter the trade today, aside from sending out your resume and cover letter to every company you can find, is to also get a job as a labourer," he advises. "That experience definitely puts you ahead. Not only does labouring on a jobsite allow you to interact with other trades and find out who is looking to take on apprentices, it also trains you on basic safety rules, which makes it easier for companies to hire you."
Be ready to work once you've landed your electrical apprenticeship.
As you embark on your journey to accumulate 9,000 hours of experience, it helps to be prepared to work in conditions that will both challenge and test you. Work is physical, can take place in extreme temperatures and ultimately requires patience, perseverance and an open mind to continuous learning.
According to Michael, it also helps to be prepared to learn how others go about the work, as different people may have a different method to reach the same end result.
"My first day was in the dead of winter, working in residential," says Michael. "I showed up and the journeymen I was set to work with was very gruff. He asked me, 'Do you know how to put a plug in?' "
"I said yes because I'd done one or two before, but as I started doing the work, he said 'No, I want it wrapped around this way.' He then tossed me a box of plugs and said 'Great, now do that 100 more times.' And left me alone for hours."
Two key benefits of an electrical apprenticeship:
1. The Work is always New and Changing
While the diversity of work available in the electrical trade can be staggering, especially with the development of complex manufacturing systems and home automation, the development of new innovations can provide challenges that are both exciting, and, well, challenging.
"Buildings evolve as they're being built," Michael says. "On topical prints, engineers can't anticipate everything – e.g. duct work might interfere with lighting – you have to work with HVAC and plumbers and you have to adapt and work as a team. Change orders – the direction to update electrical so that it fits within the rest of the building components – occur frequently. Even if 50 % of a job is complete, it may still need to be dismantled and redone."
2. How an electrical apprenticeship opens doors
There is a wide spectrum of places for electricians to go once they're ticketed. "You can do factory work, robotics, solar, I've worked with the highline guys, I got to see quite a bit." Mike commented, "I got to do some factory servicing work where we were adding things to a packaging plant. It's got the widest spectrum of work."
Now self-employed, Michael's business, Fortified Systems, focuses on assisting with the development of security and fire alarm systems – it's complex work that challenges him to engage his knowledge and creativity each and every day.
He's also had the pleasure of teaching the future generation at London Ontario's Fanshawe College.
"I'm really excited about the next generation of electricians coming in," he admits. "I think that every generation goes through the cycle of looking down on those who are up and coming because they develop the thought that 'the young kids don't want to work like we did' but in reality, you've got kids who are naturals and also those who are among the most hardworking, amazing people I've met in the trade thus far."
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Each fall the College of Arts and Sciences hosts a Themester: a year-long program that is meant to engage students and faculty in an overarching topic by integrating the specific topic into curriculum and events around the community. In the past, Themesters have covered topics ranging from sustainability to diversity. This year's Themester is Animal/Human, and it aims to explore the multi-faceted relationships and interactions between humans and animals by looking back at history and engaging audiences on related issues such as protecting biodiversity, exploring animals in the food industry, and figuring out what exactly makes dogs so special. We treat some animals like members of our own families while we consider others to be the bane of our existences, and this Themester is going to explore the full range! Whether you were already aware of Themester or this is the first you're hearing about it, Media Services invites you to participate in this year's Themester by picking some films that are guaranteed to put you in the mood to embrace learning all about the complexity of our relationship with animals!
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Chapter 11: Soldier
When I first went to Denali, I was five days old. I learned to walk in the front hall of the white house that Irina and Laurent used to live in, which was used as a guest house for the time I spent there. Carmen taught me to hunt for rabbits in the park. Eleazar looked at me consideringly and announced that I was "special". David had a jigsaw, and after he convinced Grandma that I couldn't possibly cut myself on it, he taught me to make my own puzzles out of doodles on cardboard. I swiped pastels from Kate's art supply kit to do that, and she chased me around the yard without really trying to catch me when she found out. Tanya found it amusing to hide small objects - sometimes my puzzle pieces - around the center house and send me on scavenger hunts.
This was where my hair got long enough to braid, and where Rosalie first pinned it up. This was where I spoke my first words, and where Grandpa first answered them. This was where I read my first book, and Emmett first handed over my bedtime story to let me finish it myself. This was where I celebrated my first monthly "birthday", and Grandma first lit a candle to mark the occasion.
This was the one place I'd lived longest. Four days in my birthplace Norway, four months here, a month and a half in Oregon and a month in Michigan, then five years in constant motion.
When the three buildings, still familiar, came into view, I should have felt like I was coming home.
I didn't.
It was partly the company, I decided. I was traveling with five people I barely knew, and that would have offset the comfort of any place we could have gone.
But it was also that I didn't have a home, unless it was in Mama's arms dashing from place to place. A few months at a time was a good chunk of my life, but still not all that long, and we'd always been guests in Denali. Even though the Alaskan coven lived secluded enough that my growth could have been hidden from humans indefinitely, and it would have made some sense for me to grow up there, they were only ever extended family.
By the end of the fourth month, Rosalie and Tanya had started bickering, and Eleazar and Grandpa would occasionally have solemn, quiet arguments on topics way over my head that lasted for hours and left them both politely exasperated. Kate "accidentally" brushed against Emmett while charged up one too many times, Carmen started hinting that I might be tired of the scenery and stagnation was not good for a growing mind, and soon we were packing our things to end what was emphatically just a long visit.
I had cause to be glad, later, that it wasn't home to me.
David was standing outside in front of the houses to receive us; I recognized him from a long way off despite the utter nondistinctiveness of his appearance, average in every dimension. I flung myself out of Daddy's grip when I saw him and ran over for a hug. He looked slightly bemused, but he smiled. "Elspeth, I presume," he said, patting my hair.
"Mmhm," I said, grinning.
"Good to see you, coppertop. You went and got bigger while I wasn't looking," he accused. "Hey, all," he called over my head, and started pointing at unfamiliar faces to confirm their identities. "Jasper and Edward I recognize. Peter? Charlotte? Good to meet you. Oh, Alice, Kate wants a private word with you about something. She said to tell you she's by the tree you thought looked like a stork."
"Private?" asked Alice uncomfortably, leaning on Jasper, who wrapped her up in his arms and didn't look inclined to let her go.
"That's what she said. Also why she's so far away," David added, with a nod in Daddy's direction. "I don't know what it's about."
"Where's everyone else?" Daddy asked.
"Carmen and Eleazar are hunting - they wanted to stick it out and be here to meet you but they heard some bears coming through and didn't want to miss them, it's been all small game for the last few months, run of bad luck. Tanya's... in town, plying her trade," David said with a glance down at me.
"I'm five and a half, I know what a succubus is," I said, trying to sound grown-up.
"Do you now? Right. Tanya's off being succubus-y," David said. "So I'm Mr. Meet-and-greet. Alice, are you going to go talk to Kate or not? She seemed to think it was important."
"Well..." Alice looked up apologetically at Jasper, who leaned over her to kiss her on the forehead. "She does realize that I'm probably going to be within five miles of Edward again at some point in the future, right?"
"I'd bet on it. If I had to guess what it is, she wants to apologize or something - maybe she wrote off a clue about what the Volturi were doing?" David suggested, shrugging. "And wants to apologize but doesn't want an audience while she does it? I'm just making that up, though."
"All right, then," sighed Alice, and she twisted in Jasper's arms to receive his very enthusiastic send-off before dancing off between the houses and into the trees. Jasper tensed up and looked like he was forcing himself to stand still rather than follow her, but Peter clapped him on the shoulder and that seemed to help.
Daddy made a grumbling noise. I thought that he might be annoyed that Alice had left before telling him where to go meet Mama, and he caught my eye and nodded before scowling at a perfectly harmless shrub.
"Holding up okay, coppertop?" David asked me, glancing sympathetically between me and Daddy. "I heard Tanya talking to your granddad. Sounds like you've had a rough week-and-change, huh?"
I nodded emphatically and hugged David again. He chuckled and hugged me back. "Should've dubbed you "hug-bug" instead of "coppertop". Were you this snuggly when you were a titchy thing? I guess Rosalie carried you practically everywhere you went and you always had your arms 'round her neck when you weren't "talking" to her. Hey, do you still do the thing where...?" He patted his face, and I put one hand on his cheek.
This thing?
"Yeah, that thing," he laughed. "Man. I know I'm approximately a cousin, is all, and it couldn't have hit me as hard as it did your grandad and grandmother and aunt and uncle when you disappeared, but I missed you. I ever tell you that you reminded me of my niece?"
"I would've visited, but..."
"Yeah, I know." David waved off the apology I tried to begin. "It's all right. It's good you were with your mom."
I smiled sheepishly at him. Jasper said, "David, do you have any idea how long Kate wants to speak privately with Alice?"
"Relax, the tree is six miles away, Alice probably isn't even there yet," said David affably. "I don't think it'll be that long. Sheesh," he added, elbowing me and speaking in an undertone, "vampires with mates, huh?"
"Uh-huh," I agreed. Although to be perfectly fair to Jasper, he had only gotten to be with Alice for a few hours after a separation of several years during which he believed she was dead but in fact she was being tortured and exploited. It was probably sensible for him to be a little clingy. Mama would probably be the same way, later.
"I guess I'll just have to go around with a blindfold on if I ever want to travel without risking it," David said dramatically, resting the back of his wrist on his scalp as he flung the opposite arm out. Then he laughed and ushered me into the center house, suggesting that I looked like I could use a change of clothes and would probably fit into Kate's. "Now that you're so tall, you weed, you. She won't mind. Bet you anything that after their chat she gets Alice to buy her a dozen more outfits, as a first step in reconstructing the friendship," he said.
I found Kate's room by memory and browsed the closet, humming to myself and taking plenty of time. I felt more relaxed than I had in days; even on the airplanes, with nothing urgent to do, I'd been cramped and bored and anxious.
David was a little bit different than I remembered him, but he'd been a newborn then, still. So he'd been all edgy and tended to drop into instinctive behaviors at any provocation. Even then, he'd been mostly okay around me without other people around. I wasn't a threat or food, which meant he didn't have many instincts about me and could just have a personality instead.
Some fifteen minutes later, I'd just gotten into a borrowed blouse and a pair of Kate's jeans when I heard Daddy yelling my name.
I ran to the nearest room with a window that showed the front yard - Kate's studio, which was just across the hall from her bed-less bedroom - and tried to figure out what was going on. I opened the window to hear better what Daddy was saying; I hadn't made out anything but "Elspeth" and a lot of unclear shouting.
"- traitors!" Daddy was roaring, crouched threateningly towards David, who had his hands up and was backing away slowly. Daddy jerked his head up to look at me. "Elspeth, get down here, we need to go, now." Peter and Charlotte seemed to be holding Jasper, who was struggling mightily; I heard Charlotte murmuring "you can't win, you can't, stay back -"
I hopped out the window and looked at David, who was open-mouthed in astonishment. "I didn't know," he said. "I didn't know -"
Daddy seized me around the waist and took two steps at a run before Allirea suddenly reasserted herself. "Wait. Is Demetri with them?"
Daddy actually stopped. "No," he said. "Can you kill them fast enough? Without them getting away with Alice?"
"Kill who?" I exclaimed, at the same time Jasper shouted, "Over my dead body does anyone risk Alice -"
"Who the hell are you?" David cried, boggling at Allirea.
"Allirea's a half vampire who can make herself seem inconsequential," I filled him in. "Daddy, who would she be killing?"
"Wolves," Daddy said. "Ten wolves and their handler Santiago and our traitor cousins. On their way here, rather quickly, so if this isn't going to work we need to go."
"That won't make her able to touch Kate," cried David. "Kate's always charged up -"
"Eleazar might see you, too," I warned Allirea. "He senses powers, I don't know if you can make that fade with everything..." I forgot who I was talking to. "Else," I said, just to complete the sentence.
"What the hell are we still standing around for?" Daddy muttered, and he took off, me still in tow. "Yes, David, you can come, you were an idiot but you didn't betray us on purpose. Jasper! They won't kill Alice! She's too valuable, but you aren't, do you want to run in and get yourself killed and do that to her? She'll be able to tell if you're alive! Keep your head and we might be able to get her out again!" Jasper calmed down marginally, and Peter and Charlotte let him go, and he caught up to us.
We bolted to the Denalis' garage, where David tore the door off rather than wait for it to crawl open. He grabbed the keys to a station wagon off their hook on the wall. I was thrown summarily into the backseat, Jasper on the other side; Charlotte and Peter climbed into the cargo area while David took the wheel and Daddy rode shotgun. "Rosalie modded this for me, back when," David muttered, and he gunned the engine and I got to know, for the first time, what Mama meant about vampires driving like maniacs.
"Where are we going?" I asked. "Are we going to find Mama -?"
"Can't, we don't know quite where she is and without Alice can't find out," David said regretfully. "We've got to go to the airport, head off Carlisle and the others before they walk into the trap."
"They'll expect that, you fool!"
"Look, Edward, I realize we weren't great friends even before you had all your natural affections surgically removed, but there's no call for that," said David, hurtling along the highway. Yeah, I thought, and Daddy glanced over his shoulder at me, annoyed. "I think we can get to the airport in time to meet them as they land -"
"And what if their plane is late," said Daddy, "and we waste half an hour letting them catch up? We should look for Bella. The only way to protect her now is to get her close to Elspeth, so they won't be able to use Alice's power to track her down." When he said that, Jasper scooted as far away from me as the confines of the car allowed. "Demetri is probably still tied up with other witches for now. Once we find Bella, we can worry about people they might not be actively trying to kill."
"I could call the airport, and ask them to give the Cullens a message," Charlotte proposed, and everyone fell silent in awe of her sheer common sense, or at least that was what it looked like to me.
"Do that," said Daddy. David rattled off the number, and took an exit at Daddy's direction. "How, how am I going to find Bella..." he muttered.
"Elspeth, hon, do you have any range?" Charlotte asked, not calling the airport right away. "Can you talk to her at a distance...?"
"No," I said regretfully. "All my best stuff has always been limited to touch - I can do some things with speech and body language, but that's no good if she can't see or hear me."
"Alistair," said Daddy, sounding desperate.
"Won't work," Jasper said. "Even if the man had a phone, even if you had the number for it, he wouldn't answer it, and he doesn't have the range to point you in her direction from England, and Bella is probably immune to him anyway."
Daddy growled in frustration. "Maybe we should turn back; we could at least pare down the wolves, they might cut and run rather than sticking around to wait for Bella."
"Ten wolves," said Peter. "Ten, Edward. Plus Santiago and probably the four Denalis including Kate." Charlotte had apparently finished composing a message to leave for Grandpa and the others, and dialed the airport.
"I don't understand why they'd do that," murmured David. "I just... don't understand."
"Right, it's incomprehensible," said Daddy. "The Volturi burned Sasha in front of them, then killed Irina too, and all this without raising more than a peep from Kate or Tanya; Eleazar worked for the guard for years and left amicably; who could have predicted that they wouldn't be interested in facilitating or even keeping mum about a revolution on the mere grounds that our beloved ruling class has been storing fragments of witches in the basement to let Addy copy them?"
"Wouldn't Kate be worried, and Eleazar...?" I asked.
"Eleazar's basically redundant next to Adelaide herself," snorted Daddy. "And if they ever decide they really want him back, there's plenty for Chelsea to work with there. Kate's electricity is touch-based. Even as gravel she could keep enough current to be really inconvenient to copy, and Adelaide couldn't use the power against witches anyway. Both of them are worth more to the Volturi as allies, even partial allies, than complete prisoners."
"Where are we going?" I asked again, when Daddy told David to make a turn.
"My best guess about where Bella would be by now," Daddy said. "I gave her driving directions to Denali years ago. She might be using the same route, or part of it, rather than working out a new one."
Charlotte hung up on the lady at the airport, who'd agreed to pass on the message "don't go to Denali, there are wolves around and your law-abiding friends won't shoot them; run and call Charlotte instead" when the family's plane landed. I thought it was a good way to get the warning across, without giving the human messenger enough information to hang herself with. I just hoped Grandpa didn't do anything like going into Denali and trying to reason with his old friends. It would be very much like him.
"Edward," said Jasper, "did it occur to you that if you bring Elspeth to Bella to protect her from Alice, in the same action you make her vulnerable to Demetri?"
Daddy's hands clenched in his lap. "She's already on her way to Denali," he breathed. "We have to find her first - Demetri is at least busy now -"
"They can't use Alice right away either," said Jasper, sensibly enough, although there was a crack in his voice. "She won't help them; they have to get her to Addy first, and Addy is probably helping retrieve witches in whatever order you think they'll use just like Demetri is. So you're thinking that the wolves will wait at Denali to catch Bella, and they'll be waiting for us at the airport if we decide to go there, and they'll be escorting my wife to wherever Addy is so Bella needs Elspeth right now? If I were Santiago, I wouldn't trust the Denalis farther than I could throw them even now. I'd keep all my pet wolves in one place for safety, and stick by my new allies to make sure they were clear on who they work for."
"What do you think we should do?" growled Daddy.
"Elspeth," said Jasper, "you said a wolf imprinted on you?"
"Yeah..." I said, unsure what that had to do with anything.
"Jasper," said Daddy, "Bella would never want -"
"Bella isn't here, Edward. Okay, Elspeth," he said, leaning forward to see around the obstacle in the seat between us and fix red eyes on me. "Here's the thing. I'm not a wolf expert, but I did pick up on how serious the imprinting stuff is when I heard about the first run-in the family had with them. It's not just that whichever wolf is your pet won't hurt you. None of them will, or at least they'll hesitate."
"That's not true - Brady attacked Maureen -" I reached over and showed Jasper the memory of Cody telling me that.
Jasper watched it, but then said, "I think the kid telling you that story was either exaggerating for dramatic effect to impress you, or he misinterpreted whatever the Brady pup was trying to do. He might have just been trying to knock Maureen over, or startle her. Because if he'd actually hurt her, him and Maureen's wolf would have had to fight to the death. The Volturi have yours. They probably want to use him, which entails having you around to handle him, and I'm sure all the wolves they've got know what you look like now."
"...So... your plan is..."
"We cancel the message to our folks. We go back to Denali. You go in with us and you get in the wolves' way," Jasper said. "Move quick enough that they can't knock you over without injuring you, and they won't be able to stop you. Between the five of us, we can at least hold our own against the other five vampires until our backup shows, and that's if they all fight us - some of them might stand down, especially Carmen and Eleazar, maybe Tanya. We save Alice, which, incidentally, will let us find Bella, without this hit-or-miss approximation," he concluded, glancing at Daddy. Daddy twitched.
"That had not occurred to me," said Allirea, sounding impressed as she faded in. "You believe that you can handle... What is the electric witch's entire name?"
"Katrina," I supplied, as Daddy rolled his eyes.
"Oh," said Jasper. "You exist. That will help. Yes, if Kate's your concern, we can likely manage her - she's not a good fighter, apart from the shocks, and against a few decent combatants who can trade off she'll be in manageable bits soon enough. Eleazar can barely fight at all."
"Fine," said Edward, nudging David, who took the next opportunity to illegally U-turn on the highway and head back to Denali. "Charlotte, call your friend at the airport."
"Change the message, don't cancel it," added Jasper. "They should come in ready for a fight, not expecting a welcoming party."
Charlotte dialed obediently and told the messenger her revision: "careful in Denali, there are wolves around and your law-abiding friends won't shoot them, and Charlotte's about to be too busy to answer the phone". The lady at the airport sounded very confused, but promised to tell this information to the pale people Charlotte described.
"Does it matter if they're not in Jacob's pack?" I asked. "They're probably not..."
"Shouldn't," said Jasper.
"Do you really think our little coppertop can interfere with ten wolves, well enough to put the rest of us on even footing, without getting hurt?" asked David skeptically.
"With Allirea in there helping, yes," said Jasper. "Unless you've been up to something remarkably interesting in the last five years, David, I remain the person in this car with the most combat experience."
I thought I heard David mutter something about how he was the only adult in the car with his entire brain working, but nobody rose to the bait.
He drove us back to Denali, and we all hoped that Jasper was right.
Here is how Jasper was wrong:
He thought he could fight, while Alice was hostage.
He couldn't.
A couple of wolves held her, and whenever he tried to throw himself into the fray, a claw would pierce or a paw would swipe, and Alice didn't scream, but it didn't matter, because the injuries themselves made a metallic screech and he would turn his head, every time, to see what had been broken or damaged, and try to go to her - but that would distract him long enough for someone else to get a blow in, usually Kate.
He thought Eleazar couldn't fight.
He could.
Eleazar isn't a warrior, but he is a vampire, and Allirea isn't, and nobody thought to stop Eleazar while he wasn't actively attacking anybody important. She was sabotaged by her own power advertising her presence, and I would have thought it was ironic if I'd noticed she was there at the time.
He thought the wolves couldn't hurt me.
They couldn't -
But Santiago could. She realized what was going on with her wolves (it actually worked quite well for half a minute, all of them leaping back when I ran in front of them), so she broke my legs and tossed me to a smallish brown wolf with a cream belly to be pinned down. The wolves who weren't pinning people were in the fight for good after that. And then it wasn't much of a fight anymore.
I didn't have a good view and I could barely hear, with the wolf's dinner-plate paw planted on my ear and forcing my head to the ground, and my legs hurt, I could barely even make sense of it, I'd never had anything broken before, I hadn't really taken Saeed seriously when he'd threatened, and they just kept hurting. It wasn't the instantly healed flare of accidentally biting my tongue a little; it wasn't the sudden burst that led to nothingness like when I'd been chewing my way out of the net and someone had hit me over the head. It hurt and it went on hurting and then after that it still hurt, and even if I'd been pinned facing the fight, I wouldn't have been able to see a lot through the tears prickling my eyes.
Mama, change your mind and turn around, it's not safe, I thought, wishing I had range. Mama, come save me. Mama, run for your life. Mama, it hurts, I need help.
Mama, I don't want to be a grownup yet.


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